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Clairo review – charming pop-soul from a singer with starpower to spare

Playing material from her wonderful 2024 album Charm against lavish, elegant staging, the US artist has ushered in a confident new era

Played live on this sold-out tour, the lounge-lizard feeling intensifies as her band perform on what looks like an epically proportioned sofa, backed by an elegantly glinting feature wall. Clairo sweeps around in front of this bold interior decoration with a carefree second-mimosa energy, saying that she and her band are in “such high spirits” and admiring her “crazy” teen and twentysomething audience. Her flute and saxophone soloing conjure the album’s 70s mood, but it’s such spirited playing – including a positively raucous sax meltdown to close out Partridge – that it never seems like twee nostalgia.

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